posted August 25, 2013 01:36 PM            

In these 2 areas, I see karma all the time.

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posted August 25, 2013 09:06 PM            

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Originally posted by T:
I've never noticed this, nor would I think of it in that way.

Sounds like lessons in learning how o give and also receive help.

Or maybe you are simply balancing out karma.

Maybe the "bad" things that happen to you are there for you to find the silver lining in and to realize they are not as bad as they seem.

It could just be the circle of 'good deeds' at play. You help someone, someone helps you and on it goes. To remind that sometimes you are there to give help and sometimes you need to receive it yourself. That we are all interconnected.

I'd be careful about thinking that every time you do something nice, bad is going to follow it. If you think that way, that's what you will experience.

Good and bad are going to happen to you regardless of what you do. It's called life.

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posted August 26, 2013 12:15 PM            

For the past six years, volunteers from Love Wins Ministries frequented Moore Square in Raleigh, N.C., on Saturdays and Sundays to give out hot coffee and a breakfast sandwich to those in need, according to the church group's website.

But when volunteers went down to their usual weekend spot to dole out the 100 sausage biscuits and the gallons of coffee they had brought to feed the crowds who had gathered Saturday morning, they were also greeted by officers with the Raleigh Police Department, according to a statement on the church group's website.

"An officer said, quite bluntly, that if we attempted to distribute food, we would be arrested," the Rev. Hugh Hollowell wrote on the group's website. "We asked the officers for permission to disperse the biscuits to the over 70 people who had lined up, waiting to eat. They said no. I had to face those who were waiting and tell them that I could not feed them, or I would be arrested."

The Raleigh police were there to enforce a city ordinance that bans the distribution of food in any of the city's parks, ABC Raleigh, N.C., station WTVD-TV reported.

While the group said it was aware they could not use the park itself, they had set up on the sidewalk for the past six years without issue, their website said.

"No representative from the Raleigh Police Department was willing to tell us which ordinance we were breaking, or why, after six years and countless friendly and cooperative encounters with the Department, they are now preventing us from feeding hungry people," Hollowell wrote.

In addition, the group learned it would need to apply for a permit to use the park, which costs $800 a day, their website said.

No arrests were made in connection with the food distribution, Raleigh Police Department spokesman Jim Sughrue told WTVD-TV.

"People were simply informed the ordinance prohibits the kinds of actions some groups have been engaged in at the park," he said.

Despite the off-putting encounter, Hollowell wrote that the group plans to find a venue in downtown Raleigh to carry out their mission.

In the meantime, they are seeking out owners of private buildings or parking lots to allow them to continue to bring biscuits to the hungry, the website said.